Everyone would like war to be a nice pretty movie affair where there's one big battle and everyone goes home to bang the leading lady, but that's not reality.
War is a tragedy for everyone involved, and we can see from many examples that if it isn't over quickly, it goes on for a long time and has immeasurable cost.
War is a tragedy for everyone involved, and we can see from many examples that if it isn't over quickly, it goes on for a long time and has immeasurable cost.
When I was a kid, my mom told me to stand up to bullies in the worst way: She told me to just hit them back.
It was bad. I was constantly getting into fights because when I felt uncomfortable I'd resort to aggression immediately.
Eventually I realized on my own that violence wasn't the answer, and there were ways to manage bullies that were more effective and didn't require being all aggro.
Sometimes, it's better to just read the room.
It was bad. I was constantly getting into fights because when I felt uncomfortable I'd resort to aggression immediately.
Eventually I realized on my own that violence wasn't the answer, and there were ways to manage bullies that were more effective and didn't require being all aggro.
Sometimes, it's better to just read the room.
I am legitimately triggered by some things. Yeah I know, I know. But I am.
I was in an abusive relationship a long time ago, and some of the forms of abuse including using the state to harass me after I finally left, and that left scars even years and years later.
When I read about certain things, my blood pressure rises, my mind goes back to those days sitting in my apartment like one of those submarine movies where you don't want to make a peep lest someone hear you and hit you with a depth charge, and being terrified every time I leave the house because there's a chance she sees me and concocts some new story about the horrible things fictional me has done.
CWs aren't useful for me for two reasons: First, how the hell is everyone else supposed to know what will set me off? Second, what good is that going to do? I'll avoid confronting my demons, and those wounds will be given opportunity to fester.
Now there's the problem of imposing a duty of producing CWs on people who aren't troubled by my problems. Every time people have to think about another way they could hurt someone's feelings, it's another filter between you and the rest of the world. Great, it's just one filter. Then it's two. Then it's ten. Then it's one hundred. Eventually you attenuate people so badly you don't get to see the interesting things about them.
The solution to me appears to be cultivating personal strength and grit. Instead of demanding the world change, we must change ourselves to be adapted to the world.
I was in an abusive relationship a long time ago, and some of the forms of abuse including using the state to harass me after I finally left, and that left scars even years and years later.
When I read about certain things, my blood pressure rises, my mind goes back to those days sitting in my apartment like one of those submarine movies where you don't want to make a peep lest someone hear you and hit you with a depth charge, and being terrified every time I leave the house because there's a chance she sees me and concocts some new story about the horrible things fictional me has done.
CWs aren't useful for me for two reasons: First, how the hell is everyone else supposed to know what will set me off? Second, what good is that going to do? I'll avoid confronting my demons, and those wounds will be given opportunity to fester.
Now there's the problem of imposing a duty of producing CWs on people who aren't troubled by my problems. Every time people have to think about another way they could hurt someone's feelings, it's another filter between you and the rest of the world. Great, it's just one filter. Then it's two. Then it's ten. Then it's one hundred. Eventually you attenuate people so badly you don't get to see the interesting things about them.
The solution to me appears to be cultivating personal strength and grit. Instead of demanding the world change, we must change ourselves to be adapted to the world.
I like this idea. Orgs that want to be on the fediverse start their own limited instances, and then they get the prestige of the domain name and they can control access however they want.
They haven't, and they won't.
Unfortunately, responsible policymaking would have prevented almost all of this, but we haven't had that for a long time. Good governance is boring, so it doesn't get votes.
Unfortunately, responsible policymaking would have prevented almost all of this, but we haven't had that for a long time. Good governance is boring, so it doesn't get votes.
It's going to be really interesting over the next 5 years, a lot of Western countries have been relying on debt to a dramatically unhealthy degree, apparently under the idea that rates can never rise.
With rates rising, debt maintenance costs are going to become significant, and a lot of basic services are going to have to get pared back since going deeper into debt is not going to stay an option. As long as inflation remains a potential issue, there's a very real risk of bonds going no-bid.
It means a lot of things people have taken for granted are going to go away.
Because these things move so slowly, people have assumed that because we have had monetary and fiscal policy behave in a certain way since the 2001 recession and dramatically increase at the 2008 recession, that can never change. problem is that things can change, and when they do you enter a new era that completely changes the assumptions, and you enter this new era with all the excellent work and all of the mistakes that you took with you from the last.
With rates rising, debt maintenance costs are going to become significant, and a lot of basic services are going to have to get pared back since going deeper into debt is not going to stay an option. As long as inflation remains a potential issue, there's a very real risk of bonds going no-bid.
It means a lot of things people have taken for granted are going to go away.
Because these things move so slowly, people have assumed that because we have had monetary and fiscal policy behave in a certain way since the 2001 recession and dramatically increase at the 2008 recession, that can never change. problem is that things can change, and when they do you enter a new era that completely changes the assumptions, and you enter this new era with all the excellent work and all of the mistakes that you took with you from the last.
It's been a blast being on the real internet again powered by FOSS and Untroubled by monthly reports.
I know it's a bit tough setting up postgresql and the right version of elixir, but it's not that bad after that.
Someone once called politics "sports for pretentious people" so maybe it fits a lot?
"In...2024 we're planning....to use AI....and SpaceX Technology.... To give our top creators.... 150% of ad income...."
This February, I was called a Racist Sexist Misogynistic Homophobic Transphobic American Russian for supporting a group asking my government to start respecting human rights, and the media went with it without any delay.
So yeah, let's just say they're not high on the list of trusted sources.
So yeah, let's just say they're not high on the list of trusted sources.
Honestly, I aint even mad at people for saying horrible things to journalists.
They've been "journalists" like the writers for der strumer or pravda have been journalists. They're liars who actively try to destroy people's basic human rights. We've all watched them spew hate as the establishment has ordered them to for years.
I wouldn't want them nearby any more than I'd want a nazi brownshirt nearby.
They've been "journalists" like the writers for der strumer or pravda have been journalists. They're liars who actively try to destroy people's basic human rights. We've all watched them spew hate as the establishment has ordered them to for years.
I wouldn't want them nearby any more than I'd want a nazi brownshirt nearby.
Yeah, and the other neat thing is that I don't think they understand that "mastodon" isn't a platform like twitter, so even if someone is blocked by them, the rest of the world doesn't know or care. Seeing a bunch of admins who regularly say gamer words responding to reports by journalists of gamer words is hilarious.
My Christmas lights went up like 3 years ago and I like them. They're not coming down.
It's a hissy fit.
These people don't want to live in a libre communications network, it'd kill them. They require the establishment to enforce their message or their entire world collapses under the weight of reality.
These people don't want to live in a libre communications network, it'd kill them. They require the establishment to enforce their message or their entire world collapses under the weight of reality.
Mea culpa then. I was thinking of the phrase "there's a sucker born every minute" attributed to him when I said it.
how to destroy the fediverse
There's a serious threat of all these corpos who crave to control everything on earth coming in and going "nice distributed social network you got here!"
If the corpos wanted to, they could destroy the fediverse in two ways:
First, they could embrace, extend, extinguish. Second, a libel campaign to pressure companies or governments into just destroying all of our basic human rights in ways that effectively end the fediverse.
I love seeing new users on the fediverse whether they're people I like or not, but the inrush of silver spoon corpos rushing away from Twitter scares me.
If the corpos wanted to, they could destroy the fediverse in two ways:
First, they could embrace, extend, extinguish. Second, a libel campaign to pressure companies or governments into just destroying all of our basic human rights in ways that effectively end the fediverse.
I love seeing new users on the fediverse whether they're people I like or not, but the inrush of silver spoon corpos rushing away from Twitter scares me.